2012 Frisch Medal Award

First awarded in 1978, the Frisch Medal is presented biennially for the best applied (empirical or theoretical) paper published in Econometrica during the previous five years. The purpose of the Frisch Medal is to encourage the submission to Econometrica of high quality empirical and applied work. The President appoints a committee…

Governance Committee

Following consultation with the Executive Committee, the 2011 President, Bengt Holmström, decided to set up a Governance Committee to review all aspects of the governance of the Society. The Committee is chaired by Oliver Hart (Harvard University), and the members are Tim Besley (London School of…

2011 Election of Fellows

We are pleased to announce the election of 16 new Fellows of the Econometric Society. 

James Andreoni, University of California, San Diego
Pierpaolo Battigalli, Universita Bocconi
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
Hongbin Cai, Peking University
Soo Hong Chew, National University of Singapore and HKUST
Xavier Gabaix, New York University
Johannes…

2011 Election of Officers and Council

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Election of Officers and Council.

Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be Vice-President in 2013, and President in 2014.

Rafael Repullo, CEMFI, will be Executive Vice-President until June 30, 2012. Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University, will be Executive Vice-President beginning July 1, 2012.

The following have…

2015 World Congress

The next World Congress of the Econometric Society will take place in the summer of 2015 at a location to be decided by the Executive Committee in August 2012. Expressions of interest by potential local organizers are being solicited. The proposed venue should have a large auditorium for the plenary…

2011 Nobel Prize

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy." Sargent was elected Fellow in 1976 and was President in 2005, and Sims was elected Fellow in 1974 and was President in 1995.

2010 Election of Fellows

We are pleased to announce the election of 16 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.  Of the 456 Fellows eligible to vote, 343 Fellows participated in the Fellow election.

Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania

Bruno Biais, Toulouse School of Economics

Peter Bossaerts, California Institute of Technology

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University

Parkash Chander, National University of…

2010 Election of Officers and Council

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2010 Election of Officers and Council.

James Heckman has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2012, and President in 2013.

The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:

Europe and Other Areas
Martin Browning (Oxford University)
Costas Meghir…

2010 Frisch Medal Award

The Frisch Medal has been established by the Econometric Society to encourage the creation of good applied work and its submission to Econometrica. It is given every two years for an applied article (empirical or theoretical) published in Econometrica during the past five years.

The selection committee for 2010 (Richard…

2010 World Congress Call for Papers

The Tenth World Congress of the Econometric Society will take place in Shanghai, China, August 17-21, 2010. Papers presented at the Congress will represent a broad spectrum of theoretical and applied economics and econometrics. The invited program will consist of five named lectures, fifteen paired invited sessions, and three…

2009 Election of Officers and Council

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2009 Election of Officers and Council.

Jean-Charles Rochet has been elected Second Vice-President, and will be First Vice-President in 2011, and President in 2012.

The following have been elected or reelected to the Council:

Australasia
Michael P. Keane (University of Technology, Sydney)
Andrew McLennan (University of Queensland)

Europe and Other…

2009 Election of Fellows

We are pleased to announce the election of 21 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.  Of the 433 Fellows eligible to vote, 311 Fellows participated in the Fellow election.

Helmut Bester, Freie Universität Berlin

Anne C. Case, Princeton University

Yeon‐Koo Che, Columbia University

Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University

Han Hong, Stanford University

Mamoru…